Now in paperback. A novel based on real events and drawn from the testimony of a former inmate of Tazmamart Prison, a desert concentration camp in which King Hassan II of Morocco held his political enemies. In 1991 a handful of survivors were released from their underground six-by-three-foot cells in which they had been held for decades. This novel uses the sparsest language to describe the limitlessness of inhumanity and the endurance of human will. Gloss, 195pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS.

New in paperback. Told through flashbacks and anecdotes, the author tells the story of a young woman finding an identity in modern Morocco. 163pp, EGYPT. AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO, 9774247752

Tale of friendship and betrayal set in Tangier, the novel explores the twists and turns of an intense thirty-year friendship between two young men struggling to find their identities and sexual fulfilment in Morocco in the late 1950s, a complex and contradictory society both modern and archaic. From their carefree university days through their brutal imprisonment and ultimate release, the two rely on each other for physical and psychological survival, forging bonds not easily broken. Each narrator tells his version of the story, painting a vivid portrait of life lived within and against the moral strictures of North Africa. 186pp, UK, PENGUIN..

Published as Morocco was fighting for its independence from France in 1954, it caused shockwaves in both countries, for his poetic expression of the drama inherent in the conflict of civilisations and his treatment of themes such as identity, the condition of women, and the weight of Islam in North Africa. French text. 273pp FRANCE.

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Winner of the 1987 Prix Goncourt. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, using arabic tales and surrealist elements to craft a powerful and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality. English text. vii, 178pp, USA.

2000 Paperback

After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the second world war they travel to the remote North African desert where their conflicting outlooks on life and the harsh landscape uncovers serious faultlines. 255pp, UK. PENGUIN BOOKS, 0141187778

A striking novel which brings to life the diverse experiences of modern Moroccans whose lives are entwined directly or indirectly in the trafficking of people into Europe. 181pp, UK. GRANTA PUBLICATIONS LTD, 1862075174